The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-10-14

Of cattle that have been fatting on tho
slopes OF the mountain, and on this plain,
are driven into the space Within"
"And does She live there alwayss" I
asked, sor does she come at times without
the m%ountaini"
"Nay, my son, where shc is, there she is"
By now we vera well on to the great
plain, and I was examining with delight
the varied beauty of its semi-tropicul fow-
ers and trees, the latter Of which grew
singly, or at most In clumps Of three OF
four, much OF tho timber being Of large
size. and belonging apparently to a variety
OF evergreen oak. There were also many
palms, some of them more than one hundred
feet high, and the largest and most beauti.
full tree-ferns that I ever saw, about which
hung clouds Of jewcled h~oncy-suckers
and great-wingcd butterflies. WANDERING
about among the trees, or crouching in the
long and feathered grass, were oil varie-
ties Of game, from rhinoccros down. Isaw
rhinoeeros, buffalo, "a large hcrd), Gland,
quagga, and sable antelope, the most beau.
tiful Of oil the bucks, not to mention many
smaller varieties of game, and three os.
triches which scudded away at our ap-
proach like white drift before a gale. So
plentiful was the game that at last I could
stand 1t no longer. Ihad n single-barreled
sporting Martini with mo in the litter, the
''Exprcss'' being too cumbersome, and
sspying q beautiful fat Gland rubbing HIM
self under one Of the oak-like trees, I
jumped out of tho litter, and proceeded to
creep as near to him as / could. He lot
me come within eighty yards, and then
turned his head, and stared Mt mo prepara-
knrvy fn rr,nrfnn oyvv0y tfto1 f1n v3fIn
and taking him about midway down the
shoulder, for he was side on to me, fired.
I never made q cleaner shot or a better kill
buck sprung right up into the air II Iell
dead. Tho bearers, who had all halted to
see tho performance, gavc q murmur of
surprise-an unwontcd compliment from
these sullcn people, who never appear to
be surprised at anything, II q party Of
the guard ut once ran Off to cut the animal
up. AS for myself, though I was longing
to have a look Mt him, l sauntercd back to
my litter as though l had been in the habit
of killing Gland all my life, feeling that l
had gone up several degrees in the cstima-
ton of the Amahagger, who looked on the
whole thing us a very higli-class manifes-
tation Of witchcraft. As o matter of fact,
however, I had never seen IN Gland in q
wild state before. Billali received me with
enthusiasm.
sit is wonderful, my son tho Baboon,"
he cried-"wonderful! Thou art q very
great man, though SO ugly. Had l not
seen, surely / would never have believed.
And thou sayest that thou wilt teach me
to slay in this fashion,"
"Certainly, my fataer," I said, airily;
'1t is nothing"
But all the same, I firmly made up my
mind that when tiny father Billali began
to fire, l would without full lie down OF
take refuge behind tree.
After this little incident nothing hap
pened Of any note till about an hour and
a half before shutdown, when we arrived
beneath the shadow of tho towering vol
canic mass that have already described.
1t is quite impossible for me to describe its
grim grandeur us it appeared to me while
my patient bearers toilcd along the bed of
tho ancient water-course toward the spot
where the rich brown-clad cliff shot up
from precipicc to precipice till its crown
lost itself in clouds. All I n say is that
it almost awcd mo by tho intensity Of its
lonesome and most solemn greatness. On
VIC went up the bright and sunny slope,
till ut last the creeping shadows from
ITO be continually